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Banning of American flags? Talk about nuts.

Its a 45 minute video, watch it and send the link to your friends. It will open your eyes if you haven't experience college life latley.

Had to buy it myself, but there is one flying in my classroom. Never said anything other than, "Please rise" to my students, and I don't recite the pledge myself, but they all stand and some pledge.

http://academicbias.com/bw101.html

Banning of American flags? Talk about nuts.

Its a 45 minute video, watch it and send the link to your friends. It will open your eyes if you haven't experience college life latley.

Five minutes in and it crapped out. Either way, I'm in college life right now, have been for over 6 years, and I haven't seen any banning of flags, etc. yet.

Well for an outsider, the daily ritual of American kids and college students being sworn in to the flag and (forced) to pledge to "God", it seems rather silly. Reminds me of the communist tradition I was forced to back in the GDR.Each morning "Für Frieden und Sozialismus. Seid bereit! Immer bereit!"

Propaganda and brainwashing... I do not think it is good.

Those leftists administrator's apparently don't have much confidence in their own beliefs if they don't believe it can stand up to opposition from the right....

Anyways yeah I watched the video, it was a bit long but I'm just trying to pass the time anyways.

It brings up a fairly good point. Obviously not all univeristies are run by extreme leftist administration, but this is an example against leftists who would claim that the left is all accepting and stuff while the right is apparently very discriminatory.

I just think the entire country is moving towards the left, and universities are just moving with the rest of the country. I think it's really unfortunate.... but it seems to be unavoidable. Human's rather disgusting instincts will take over eventually....

Ok, so this guy went to three Universities, all three of which had already had very public problems. Where were the schools in which he knew of nothing happening? Do you really think that three schools are representative of the entire University system in this country?

Those three schools were examples.

Many more schools if you watch the video have "speech codes" and banned American flags after 9/11.

If the blackness squared twelve away, there is still one out there. DO SOMETHING!

Those three schools were examples.

Many more schools if you watch the video have "speech codes" and banned American flags after 9/11.

They still listed an extremely small subset of schools. You can't extrapolate a small subset out to represent the entirety of the university system.

Small subset? Most colleges have "speech codes."

Ok... so I watched the first few minutes, but now I've given up. On top of being somewhat poorly put together, the film shows it bias, ignorance, and inconsistency of logic from the start. The clips dicussing the role of colleges in World War II included the idea that colleges were created to help equip American students to think critically and debate ideas while the theme of the film seems to be that dissent is treasonous and critical thinking and the debate of ideas are not useful in times of war. That there exist people who wish to kill Americans simply because they are Americans is a sad thing, but to say that anyone who does not blindly support the president and his often rash, unthought out decisions falls into that catagory shows a level of ignorance unbefitting of a college graduate. Thomas Jefferson said, "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?" as well as, "When the government fears the people, you have liberty; when the people fear the government, you have tyranny." Criticism, even the most vocal opposition, is still a form of patriotism. Loyalty to the eternal ideals of America, not loyalty to its impermanent leaders is the highest form of patriotism.

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Banning of American flags? Talk about nuts.
Whats so nuts about it?